Pregnant women prisoners are being handcuffed to prison officers – often male – during intimate vaginal examinations and long, agonising births. Will this dehumanising treatment be stopped?

A volunteer said it was "quite monumental going from prison to Parliament" after speaking about her experience in the prison ...

A female prison guard working at the Wealstun Prison, near Wetherby in West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, is facing a prison sentence after she admitted to having an inappropriate relationship with an ...

There is no automatic breach of female inmates’ human rights by the presence of trans women on the female prison estate, a Scottish human rights body has told a court. A lawyer for the Scottish Human ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Woking Female Convict Prison opened in 1869 [Woking History Society] Britain's first purpose built women's prison once stood on ...